Newt camp: 'Panic' in Boston

The war of words between Newt-world and Mitt-world goes on, with Gingrich campaign surrogates answering the latest incoming from Boston by branding Romney as "desperate."

"When people go negative, without offering a positive, without showing what they're doing, they lose elections. I have seen that happen and sometimes it happens when we tried that in the state as well," Iowa House Majority Leader and Newt endorser Linda Upmeyer said on a conference call, according to Reid Epstein. "What we're seeing from Mitt Romney in Boston is desperation and panic, and that’s going to be very frustrating going forward."

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The line from former Iowa Rep. Greg Ganske: "Maybe [Romney] doesn’t care about winning Iowa. Maybe he just wants to tear down the speaker here. I don’t know what his strategy is."